Fables: Feng Hsueh-feng

Title

en_US Fables: Feng Hsueh-feng

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: chi

en_US Stated first edition

en_US Feng Hsueh-Feng, translated by Gladys Yang

Creator

en_US Feng, Xuefeng

Contributor

en_US Yung-yu, Huang

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:18Z

en_US 2004-07

en_US 1953

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1953

Abstract

en_US Once this book arrived, I thought it a repeat of something I already have. Closer inspection shows that I have a softbound second edition of 1955, while this is the first edition of 1953. Apparently the order of fables changed significantly in the second edition, though there are fifty-one fables here as there. As I mention there, the fables are often directly admonitory and/or of a highly political slant. Thus the author writes of skylarks ”Poets like these are the true friends of the people” (6). The best of the fables, I believe, are ”The Snake and the Rabbit (42) and ”The Original Rat” (61), which may also have the best illustration. Among the most overtly political are those on the imperialist weasel munching a duckling (27) and the imperialist snake against the collective bees (29). Other good fables include ”The Hunter and His Wife” (12), ”The Lion and the Setting Sun” (15), ”The Lion and the Lamb” (34), ”The Fox and the Rabbits' Farm” (39), ”The Cow and Her Rope” (53), ”The Curious Crow” (44), and ”The Cow and Her Calf” (54). There is a T of C at the front.

Identifier

en_US 4959 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80556

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Foreign Languages Press

en_US Peking

Subject

en_US PL2937.E64 F3 1953

en_US Hsueh-Feng

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole